First and Last Names that Start with the Same Letter

Yesterday I read an article about this year’s college football prospects. Three of the top ten have first and last names that start with the same letter: Bryce Brown (#1), Rueben Randle (#2) and Jelani Jenkins (#10).

That seemed like a rather high concentration…so I checked out the entire top 100 for similar names. I found six more: Janzen Jackson (#17), Garrett Gilbert (#18), Shayne Skov (#45), Morgan Moses (#49), Patrick Patterson (#50) and Jarvis Jones (#72).

Nine out of 100…nearly 10%. (Could this be representative of the entire population?) At this point I was curious enough to scan all of the archived rankings:

So it seems there are more of these names than normal this year. Still, though, I’m curious to know just how many people in the U.S. have first names that start with the same letters as their surnames. (I also wonder whether the Name-Letter Effect has skewed the number upward at all.)

15 thoughts on “First and Last Names that Start with the Same Letter”

I’m someone who has first and last names starting with the same letter, due to my married name beginning with P. I was Patricia B…, but became Patricia P… My younger sister was named Rebecca B… but she went by Becky B… until she married. Since many women take their husband’s surname at marriage, parents naming a girl can’t be sure she always will (if they so intend) or won’t have a first name and surname beginning with the same letter.

It’s another matter with naming a boy who most likely will never change his surname. One of my nephews has the same beginning letter for all three of his names: Bryson Benjamin B…. I think his parents liked the name Bryson, wanted him to have his father’s name Benjamin as his middle name, and thus ended up with the initials BBB. Their second son’s name doesn’t follow that pattern; his initials are ELB.

It just occurred to me that the father in my example above has first and last names beginning with the same letter too: Ben B… Again, his parents didn’t seek a first name beginning with the same letter as their last name, but just chose the name they liked best – Benjamin/Ben. Their younger son’s name begins with J.

i saw this and i just had to say. my intials are all the same. all M`s. i like it but im only 21 so i suppose one day it will change. and i have met someone whos initials were all Ds. he`s actually the person i`m inlove with and at one point i joked around telling him it was a sign. haha. just my input.

I have all three initials the same LLL. I tried to google first middle and surnames starting with same initial and nothing came up. Several sites with first and last or first and middle but nothing with all three letters. If anyone knows where I can find such a site please help by commenting. I noticed a couple of examples in previous comments of same initials. I thought it would be interesting to see how many people have this.